Article July 26, 1913 Issue

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Lathan A. Crandall with contributions from Ozora S. Davis, H. S. McClelland

[Lathan A. Crandall in The Standard.]

The weakness of the church is in being satisfied with believing that God is. We do not seem to realize that we might as well have gods of wood and stone as a living God whose life does not pass over into our own. How slow we are to accept to the full the implications of Jesus' declaration, that except we eat his body and drink his blood we can have no life in us! How superficial is the common view of his interpretation of life when he asserts that it is to know the true God and Jesus Christ whom God has sent! The Master gave much more time to instruction concerning the relations which we must sustain to God than he gave to baptism and the Lord's Supper. By didactic teaching and revealing illustrations he sought to make it clear that God must dwill in us, and we in God, if we are to live the true life. The knowledge of God which conditions eternal life, and so the power of the church to accomplish its task, is much more than the "furniture of the mind;" it is the "nutriment of the soul." No description of the wood violet can give one real knowledge of its beauty and fragrance, and no catalogue of the divine attributes or theological estimate of the nature of God can make potent our work for the world's salvation. Only as we share in His life do our lives become efficient as regenerative forces.

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